Prepare to Abandon Hope, All Ye Ants Who Enter Here! One of my newest pitcher plant has opened. I got the S. “Abandoned Hope” because I...

Caught a mite roaming around on the Drosera Spatulata. I was focussed in tight on a dead insect, when I spotted movement. I moved the...

Spring is here and the drosera are growing like weeds. Here are a few random drosera pictures. (Older Drosera pictures are here....

March 6, 2020 My smallest drosera, D. Spatulata, caught a giant mosquito hawk. It's a testament to how sticky the little drosera can...

Feb 25, 2020 Since I’ve been growing carnivorous plants, I’ve seen many flies captured and eaten by mites. This is the first time the...

Feb. 23, 2020 The S. Yellow Jacket is not the biggest pitcher plant, but it never fails to host stange and frequently creepy, commensal...

Feb 17, 2020 I’m always finding new commensal animals in S. Yellow Jacket. I think I spotted rotifers feeding on ants. I am sure...

Dec 14 2019 Sarracenia pitchers are home to countless commensal animals. They eat the insects that the pitcher captures and help the...

I got some Burmese amber off ebay recently. It wasn't for a specific fossil, just a couple of random pieces of amber. I didn't have...

The Humble rock show is coming soon! Houston Gem and Mineral Society fossil show Humble Civic Center November 8–10, 2019 Friday 9-6 |...

Aug 15 Got a Sarracenia “Yellow Jacket” earlier from petflytrap.com. To quote their info: This hybrid is the result of a...

On this day Sept 17, 1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek describes “animalcules“ in a letter to The Royal Society. According to Why Evolution...

A small dragonfly got caught on the Drosera Filiformis. Check out those eyes! The large D Filiformis is between the S Judith Hindle and...

A few examples of compound eyes over the last 500 million years ago. Trilobite fossil at the rock show.

Just found this in my archives. Its Just a picture of the a Venus Flytrap and it's image on the phone. The same day of my disturbing...

The Teslong MS100 Pencam has 8 LED lights around the camera. That's very handy, but sometimes its reflection gets shows up in pictures...